What are your favourite Fallen-related releases
Whilst updating my list of favourite metal albums on the General forum I thought I'd start a clan-specific thread.
So what are your top twenty, thirty or whatever albums that reside in The Fallen?
I've gone with thirty which are all 5/5s for me (one release per band only):
1. Warning - Watching from a Distance (2006)
2. Winter - Into Darkness (1990)
3. Solstice - New Dark Age (1998)
4. Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence (2019)
5. SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods (2013)
6. Hell - III (2012)
7. Evoken - Quietus (2001)
8. Cianide - A Descent Into Hell (1994)
9. Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea (2006)
10. Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend (2002)
11. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
12. MSW - Obliviosus (2020)
13. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper (2017)
14. Yith - Immemorial (2018)
15. Inter Arma - Sulphur English (2019)
16. Scald - Will of the Gods Is Great Power (1996)
17. Skepticism - Lead and Aether (1997)
18. Windhand - Soma (2013)
19. Bismuth - The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef (2018)
20. Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries (1988)
21. Colosseum - Chapter 2: Numquam (2009)
22. Tyranny - Tides of Awakening (2005)
23. CHRCH - Light Will Consume Us All (2018)
24. Spiritus Mortis - The God Behind the God (2009)
25. Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress (2001)
26. Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer: 10 Psalms for Our Lord of Light (1998)
27. Epitaphe - I (2019)
28. Monolithe - Monolithe III (2012)
29. Ogre - Plague of the Planet (2008)
30. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction (2012)
Here's my top ten (baring in mind that I don't believe in the one release per band philosophy):
1. Pig Destroyer – “Natasha” E.P. (2008)
2. Sunn O))) – “Black One” (2005)
3. Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“ (2003)
4. Rosetta – “The Galilean Satellites” (2005)
5. Neurosis – “Souls At Zero” (1992)
6. diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral” (1993)
7. Isis – “The Mosquito Control” E.P. (1998)
8. Isis – “Panopticon” (2004)
9. Celtic Frost – “Monotheist” (2006)
10. Warning – “Watching From A Distance” (2006)
I'll have to use the one release per band thing, otherwise the first two bands below would dominate too much.
OK, off the top of my head (meaning I've probably forgotten something important)...
1. Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
2. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
3. disEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral
4. The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
5. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
6. Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale
7. Saturnus - Paradise Belongs to You
8. Rapture - Futile
9. Draconian - Under a Godless Veil
10. Dolorian - Dolorian
Here's my updated top ten (baring in mind that I don't believe in the one release per band philosophy):
01. Pig Destroyer – “Natasha” E.P. (2008)
02. Sunn O))) – “Black One” (2005)
03. Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“ (2003)
04. Esoteric - "The Maniacal Vale" (2008)
05. Rosetta – “The Galilean Satellites” (2005)
06. Neurosis – “Souls At Zero” (1992)
07. diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral” (1993)
08. Isis – “The Mosquito Control” E.P. (1998)
09. Isis – “Panopticon” (2004)
10. Celtic Frost – “Monotheist” (2006)
1. Messa - Close (2022)
2. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper (2017)
3. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms (2015)
4. Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships (2012)
5. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood (1996)
6. Candlemass - Nightfall (1987)
7. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
8. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction (2012)
9. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata (2014)
10. Sub Rosa - More Constant Than the Gods (2013)
1. Messa - Close (2022)
2. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper (2017)
3. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms (2015)
4. Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships (2012)
5. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood (1996)
6. Candlemass - Nightfall (1987)
7. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
8. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction (2012)
9. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata (2014)
10. Sub Rosa - More Constant Than the Gods (2013)
Excellent picks Vinny. I should probably update my own list, it has been over three years and I'm sure there must have been some movement there.
I wasn't planning on doing a new top 10 for my favorite Fallen releases, since I'm already way past my Fallen prime of 3 years ago, but I realized that I still have some favorites, so here's my current list:
1. Trail of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance (2009)
2. Omega Lithium - Dreams in Formaline (2009)
3. October Tide - Rain Without End (1997)
4. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (2006)
5. Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood (1996)
6. Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites (2005)
7. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I (2021)
8. Hinayana - Shatter and Fall (2023)
9. Mutoid Man - Mutants (2023)
10. High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (2010)
Here's the latest update to my top ten:
1. Warning - Watching from a Distance (2006)
2. Candlemass - Nightfall (1987)
3. Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence (2019)
4. Solstice - New Dark Age (1998)
5. SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods (2013)
6. Hell - III (2012)
7. Evoken - Quietus (2001)
8. Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version (1993)
9. Winter - Into Darkness (1990)
10. Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea (2006)
My updated list looks like this:
01. Pig Destroyer – “Natasha” E.P. (2008)
02. Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record 1" (2007)
03. Sunn O))) – “Black One” (2005)
04. Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“ (2003)
05. Esoteric - "The Maniacal Vale" (2008)
06. MonumentuM - "In Absentia Christi" (1995)
07. Rosetta – “The Galilean Satellites” (2005)
08. Neurosis – “Souls At Zero” (1992)
09. diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral” (1993)
10. Isis – “The Mosquito Control” E.P. (1998)
My updated list looks like this:
01. Pig Destroyer – “Natasha” E.P. (2008)
02. Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record 1" (2007)
03. Sunn O))) – “Black One” (2005)
04. Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“ (2003)
05. Esoteric - "The Maniacal Vale" (2008)
06. MonumentuM - "In Absentia Christi" (1995)
07. Rosetta – “The Galilean Satellites” (2005)
08. Neurosis – “Souls At Zero” (1992)
09. diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral” (1993)
10. Isis – “The Mosquito Control” E.P. (1998)
Some nice choices there, Daniel. Unfortunately I have never got to grips with "Transcendence Into The Peripheral". It's been a long time since I last tried, so maybe it's due a revisit, but I found it to be very disappointing on previous occasions.
Unfortunately, I have never got to grips with "Transcendence into the Peripheral". It's been a long time since I last tried so maybe it's due a revisit, but I found it to be very disappointing on previous occasions.
That fact has always very much surprised me Sonny as "Transcendence into the Peripheral" was nothing short of life-changing for me personally & seems like something that is tailor made for your taste profile. It's never been surpassed as the best doom/death release I've ever heard & the influence it's had on many of the current crop of bands is as clear as day. Each to their own though of course.
Unfortunately, I have never got to grips with "Transcendence into the Peripheral". It's been a long time since I last tried so maybe it's due a revisit, but I found it to be very disappointing on previous occasions.
That fact has always very much surprised me Sonny as "Transcendence into the Peripheral" was nothing short of life-changing for me personally & seems like something that is tailor made for your taste profile. It's never been surpassed as the best doom/death release I've ever heard & the influence it's had on many of the current crop of bands is as clear as day. Each to their own though of course.
Yes, exactly Daniel. I am as perplexed as you are as to why it has never resonated with me because, as you say, it seems to be exactly my sort of thing on paper. I really need to try again, because I am not one of those who dogmatically sticks to his guns and I would love to join the party. There are just so many people whose opinions I respect who love that album that I know the problem is mine alone.